Emptying the Bread Basket

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

By Anne Applebaum

From the August 2017 Issue

Party Walls

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

By Yuri Slezkine

LR

From the July 2017 Issue

Open Season

Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring

By Kathleen E Smith

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From the April 2017 Issue

Witness to a Century

Miłosz: A Biography

By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)

From the March 2017 Issue

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

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From the February 2017 Issue

One Shift in the Life of…

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

By Ivan Chistyakov (Translated by Arch Tait)

LR

From the November 2016 Issue

The Monk behind the Myth

Rasputin

By Douglas Smith

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From the October 2016 Issue

Trial & Terror

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953

By Simon Ings

LR

From the July 2016 Issue

Black Sea Battleground

Crimea: A History

By Neil Kent

The Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin’s Conquest

By Brian Glyn Williams

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From the June 2016 Issue

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

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From the October 2015 Issue

The Cook’s Grandson

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

By Steven Lee Myers

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War

By Arkady Ostrovsky

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

By Garry Kasparov

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From the July 2015 Issue

From the Kremlin to Ladbroke Grove

Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

By Rosemary Sullivan

From the May 2015 Issue

More Peter than Judas

Tolstoy’s False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov

By Alexandra Popoff

LR

From the May 2003 Issue

Travels with My Uncle Vanya

Reading Chekhov: Critical Journey

By Janet Malcolm

LR

From the July 2003 Issue

Midwife to Genius

Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas

By Richard Freeborn

LR

From the September 2003 Issue

A Communist’s Progress

The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov: 1933-1949

By Ivo Bana (ed)

LR

From the April 2015 Issue

Ghosts of Anatolia

‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide

By Ronald Grigor Suny

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

By Thomas de Waal

Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia

By Armen T Marsoobian

LR

From the March 2015 Issue

The Big Freeze

Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

By Karen Dawisha

Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No 1 Enemy

By Bill Browder

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From the May 2004 Issue

Everyday Horrors

Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva

By Irma Kudrova

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From the June 2004 Issue

Donald Rayfield Welcomes New Translations of two Russian Classics

Lady Macbeth of Mitsenk

By Nikolai Leskov

Dubrovsky

By Alexander Pushkin

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